I am having trouble understanding why, exactly, blacks get a boost in admissions. Is it simply because, for some reason, we generally score lower on the LSAT? Anyone have links to any good articles expanding upon the whys?

Anyone care to predict responses from each of these schools I applied to?

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Boston College Law School Boston University School of Law University of California, Berkeley, School of Law University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law The University of Chicago Law School Columbia University School of Law Cornell Law School Duke University School of Law Fordham University School of Law The George Washington University Law School Georgetown University Law Center Harvard Law School The University of Michigan Law School New York University School of Law Notre Dame Law School University of Pennsylvania Law School Stanford University Law School Vanderbilt University Law School University of Virginia School of Law